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Webster 1913 Edition
Drollery
1.
The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.
The rich
drollery
of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Macaulay.
2.
Something which serves to raise mirth
; as: (a)
A puppet show; also, a puppet.
[Obs.]
Shak.
(b)
A lively or comic picture.
[Obs.]
I bought an excellent
drollery
, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.
Webster 1828 Edition
Drollery
DROLLERY
,Noun.
1.
Sportive tricks; buffoonery; comical stories; gestures, manners or tales adapted to raise mirth.2.
A puppet-show.